CricketCountry Cricbattle Daily Fantasy Cricket League Tips: India v West Indies on August 9

India have a 1-0 lead in the series after having won the 1st at Antigua and the 2nd Test at Jamaica ended in a draw last week after West Indies managed to weather India’s bowling in their second innings.

India have a 1-0 lead in the series after having won the first Test at Antigua. The second Test at Jamaica ended in a draw last week after West Indies managed to weather India’s bowling in their second innings. The home side will now have more belief in their abilities now that they managed to claw back from a bad position in the last Test match. The lower middle-order did really well on the occasion but now it will be up to the top-order to fire in St Lucia. The West Indies bowlers also need to buck up against the visitors. India have always had good batsmen and this lot have looked at ease in the Caribbean so far. Kohli and Rahane are mainstays in the batting lineup with Pujara also finding his form. The Indians have shown that they can turn it on with the ball as well and with Ashwin in their ranks, they will hope to wrap up the series in St Lucia. Join Daily Fantasy League & Win Daily Prizes: CricketCountry.CricBattle.com

Best economical pick – Batting first on the occasion of the second test West Indies were bowled out for 196 runs with Jermaine Blackwood top-scoring with 62 runs. In the second innings Blackwood also scored a destructive innings of 63 runs off just 54 balls.

Top captains & vice captains – KL Rahul and Ajinkya Rahane put India in a commanding position with twin centuries in the first innings of second test. While Rahul scored 158 runs from the top of the batting order, Rahane hit 108 runs from number five.

Smart pick – West Indies were staring at a massive task in the second innings and they were not helped by a bad start. They were quickly reduced to 48/4 when Darren Bravo was dismissed on 20 runs but Roston Chase hit an unbeaten 137 runs to help the hosts save the game.

Cautions Pick – Probably known as the next Brian Lara the West Indian batting maestro Darren Bravo has been out of form in this test series. He has scored just 11 runs in the first two test of this series.

CricBattle XI – KL Rahul (c), A Rahane (vc), Jermaine Blackwood, Kraigg Brathwaite, Virat Kohli, Devendra Bishoo, I Sharma, Shane Dowrich, Roston Chase, S Gabriel, R Ashwin

(Soubhagya Swain– Fantasy Guru, CricBattle Analyst)

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